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Newsletter Nr. 1.378
Amsterdam, July 13, 2025


The Three Eyes and the Trouble of Transgression  Ken Wilber, Evolution, and the Mixing of Sciences - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber has long championed an epistemology that honors multiple ways of knowing, each corresponding to different domains of inquiry. In Eye to Eye (1983), he introduced a compelling framework of the “three eyes of knowledge”: the eye of flesh (sensory and empirical knowing), the eye of mind (rational and interpretive understanding), and the eye of spirit (mystical or contemplative insight). Each of these eyes, he proposed, corresponds to a valid form of “science” with its own methods, standards, and truths.

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The Elephant in the Room - Power, Justice, and the Failure of Wilber's Developmental Politics - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

In the wake of 9/11, Ken Wilber wrote a widely circulated essay interpreting the terrorist attacks through the lens of his Integral Theory.[1] He framed the conflict as a clash of developmental stages: premodern religious absolutism confronting modern secularism and postmodern relativism. His followers praised the analysis for its clarity and depth. Yet, more than two decades later, as global injustice festers and Western powers support or enable military occupations and mass atrocities, many—including long-time Integral thinker Joseph Dillard—are questioning the adequacy, and even the moral legitimacy, of such a framework.

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